Improvement in steps foe spring-wagons



J. H. DEAL.

Carriage-Step. No. 66,954. Patented July 23, 1,867.

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JOHN H, DEAL, OF HORNELLSVILLE, NEW YORK. Letters Patent No. 66,954, dated July 23, 1867.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. DEAL, of Hornellsville, Steuben county, in the State ofNew' York, have invented a new and useful Improvement-in the Construction and Application of Steps to Platform-Spring Wagons; and the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a. part of this-specification, in which Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a double right-angle connecting-j with the step on'tlie top.

Figure 2 shows the top of the step.

The object of my invention is to attach-a step to the joint of platform springs, which is the most convenient and desirable place for mounting the Wagon.

My invention consists in having the right-angle connecting-joint link elevated suiiiciently above the bolt to which the top spring is attached, and supporting on it a roughened disk of any desired size, so as to answer the purpose of a step for mounting into the wagon, or for taking out boxes or bales in delivering arcels by express-men and wagoners.

My right-angle link iron A is constructed in asimilar manner to those in use for connecting the ends of platform springs together by the bolts B B. The upper portion of the iron A extends over the opening and bolt B, and is joined together at the top, forming a flat surface, on which the'pla te or disk 0 is firmly secured by riveting it to the iron A. The step or disk C may be of any desired size or form, the upper surface being roughened, so as to prevent the foot from slipping off as a person mounts the wagon.

It will readily be seen that there is no place so convenient and desirable for placing a permanent step to a platform-spring wagon as the one above described.

What I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Placingaud securing a plateor di sk,to form a step, on'the iron or connecting-link of platform springs, for express or other wagons, substantially in the manner herein described, for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name this day of 1867, in the presence of-- JOHN H. DEAL.

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Witnesses:

H. B. CHASE, A. M. PLIMPION. 

